Chop! Chop! Creating useful chemicals from lignin

2018-12-11T11:13:00

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Breaking the hardy carbon-carbon bond in wood puts new fuels on the horizon

A team has designed a bond-breaking reaction that could chop lignin into smaller molecules, transforming word into fuels or other useful chemicals.

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